2 Timothy 3:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Persecutions

At antioch

Acts 13:45

Acts 14:2

But

General references

Jeremiah 38:28

Bible References

Persecutions

For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.

For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.

At antioch

But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.

But

I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:

And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul.

And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.

And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

General references

So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.